The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons, but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there ; our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist there. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence ?

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.